Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-19

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night for our amusement. l was aston
ished to hear this, M / fancied that thu
Amahagger were much too gloomy y folk
TO indulge in any such frivolity; bat, na
will presently more clearly appear, IL
turned out that an Amahagger dance had
little in common with such fantastic fes
tivities in other countries, savage or elyi
lied. -
Then, as we were about to withdr
she suggested that Leo might like Z
some of the wonders of the caves, 80
he gladly assented to this, thithe' u
parted, accompanied by job u we '"
To describe our visit would or "'sh""n
peat a great deal Of what | DC 70
said. The tomhs we enter pS'e ""v""s
different, for the whole We're n""c.'
comb Of sepulchres, bu' WSwas a honNs
nearly always the 8 %the cohleh@ W"
visited the pyram' Ase Ai~rw@u w.
haunted NV drear Al Of bones that had
and from thence as on the previous night,
sace tn one of went down u long pas
the bodies of she great vaults occupied Dy
Kor. Thes the poor citizens OF i1nperiaA
well pres. q bodies were not nearly SD
linen CO erved, anu many OF them had ha
burie' Jvering onl them, also they "efs
ina from five hundred to enc thousaha
ins single large vault, the corpses IN many
G .tances being thickly piled one upon a""
Lber, like n heap of slain.
Leo was Of course intensely Interested IN
this stupendous and unequafed sight,
which was, indeed, enough to AWAKE -
er- the imagination a man had In him into 1@%
Ter most active life. But to poor Job 10 did
not prove attractive. His nerves-already
I'd. seriously shaken by what he had upler-
ed gone since we had arrived in this terfibEe
IN countrY-were, as may be imagined, still
be further disturbed by the spectacle Of nA
this mass of departed humanity, whSes
a forms still remained perfect before Ills
ne eyes, though their voices were forever lest
o. in the eternal silence OF the tomb. Nor
Is was he comforted when oldBiIlali, by way
IN of soothing his eeidenl> @Sitasaon, inferTred
Il him that he should not b, rpghtesed on
q these dead things, as he would b, "Sl""@
~ them himself. -
,here ; a nice thing to say OF a man
SIR he CALCULATED, when / translated thSn
- REMARK but there, what can one
expect OF an old man-eating savagef Not
sighed. -" '"~
q When we had finished inspecting thu
caves, we returned and had our meal Tor
= IL was now past four In the afternoon. aua
= we needed some food and rest osnao,.1;,,
Leo. At six o'clock we all, includinc Iob
!, waited on Ayesha, who set to work 10 tor
riiy our poor servant still further by show.
lhS uiih pictures on the pool OF water I'm
: the lont-llke vessel. She learnt from o,,
mat ne was one of seventeen children. and
then DID him think Of all his brothers ana
Z SISTERS or as many OF them as he cAriki.
gathered together in his fathers cottage
ihen she told him to look in the watyr
ana there, reflected from its Silly ~surfaee
was that dead scene of MANY veara oo.s.
by, as it was recalled to our Door seyvarsp.
Drain. some or the faces were clear enouEh
out some were mere blurs and spIetchea
OF with one feature grossly exa0gerntad-
.he TACT being that, in these instances. job
hao been unable to recall the exact an-
pearahce OF the individuals, or rememberex
tNeGl only by a popularity of his tribe. ana
the water could only reflect what he saw
with his minds eye. For il must be- Pa
membered that She's power in this matter
was strictly limited; she could apparently
except In very rare instances, only phof<.-
graph upon the water what was a~ctuaTIy-
IN the mind of some one present, and thsn
only by his will.
But II she was personally acquainted
with q locality, she could, as in the case Of
ourselves and the whale-boat, throw ms
renecton upon the water, and also the re-
Aecllon OF anything extraneous that was
passing there at the time. This power.
however, did not extend to the minds of
others. For instance, she could show ns
the interior OF my college chapel as / re-
membered 1t, but not as it was at the mo.
ment OF reflection; for where other peop.s
were concerned, her art was strictly limited
70 the facts or memories present TO Their
consciousness at the moment. So mach
was TINS so that when We tried, for her
amusement, TO show her pictures OF noted
buildings, such as st. Paul's or the HouseS
Parhament. the result was most imper-
fect; Tor, OF course, though we had a good
idea OF their appearance, we could
not recall all the architectural details. and
therefore the minutie necessary to a per
rect rejection were wanting. But Job
could not be got to understand this, and
10 Tar from accepting a natural explana-
ION OF the matter, which was, after an.
'hongh strange enough in all conscience
ITO be continued